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46 FOCUS On AUSTrIA FOCUSOn AUSTrIA Paradise: Hope It’s been a big year for Austrian film. Michael Haneke’s Amour (SFF 2012) won both the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Oscar® SYDnEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013 SFF.OrG.AU Michael h. Profession: Director Michael haneke – Porträt eines FilMhandwerkers MuseuM hours solDate Jeannette for Best Foreign Language Film. Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy achieved the rare feat of playing in competition at the three major festivals: Cannes, Venice and Berlin. Through this Focus on Austria, we pay tribute to these masters and their colleagues, their films and their methods, to the beautiful city of Vienna, and to the country’s next generation of filmmakers. sun 16 Jun 10:00 aM eV4 Mon 10 Jun 11:30 aM eV8 Austria, France | 2013 | 90 mins | In German, French and English with English subtitles australian PreMiere Director: Yves Montmayeur | Screenwriter: Yves Montmayeur | Producers: Serge Guez, Vincent Lucassen, Ebba Sinzinger | Distributor: Madman Entertainment Twenty years ago, SFF screened Michael Haneke’s second feature, Benny’s Video. Two years later, 71 Fragments of a Chronology of a Chance hit the festival’s screens. In 2012 it was Amour, fresh from scooping up the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It went on to win the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. This formidable Austrian filmmaker is now the subject of a documentary, and it makes for a fascinating study whether you’re a longtime fan of his work or not. Interviews with the notoriously abrupt Haneke are interspersed with clips from his movies and discussions with actors including Juliette Binoche (Hidden, Code Unknown), Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher, Time of the Wolf, Amour) and Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour). Not to be missed are scenes of Haneke in action, crafting a key scene from Amour – truly a master at work. Fri 7 Jun 6:15 PM doQ2 wed 12 Jun 6:30 PM doQ3 Austria, USA | 2012 | 106 mins | In English and German with English subtitles australian PreMiere Director, Screenwriter: Jem Cohen | Producers: Paolo Calamita, Jem Cohen, Gabriele Kranzelbinder | Cast: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits | World Sales: MPM A foreigner called to Vienna by a medical emergency, Anne wanders the streets in limbo, broke and unable to speak the language. Whiling away the hours in the Art History Museum, she encounters Johann, a guard who warily offers to be her guide. Celebrated indie director Jem Cohen’s cerebral film, for all its deliberate pace, is a warm tale of two lonely souls brought together by art and chance. Parallels with Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy (page 22) will be appreciated, but Cohen’s film is an original work. As in a museum, viewers aren’t told where to look or what to think; we’re encouraged to make our own discoveries. This deceptively simple story takes you to the Vienna behind the tourist clichés, defying cinema stereotypes and combining unconventional romance with an enchanting reflection on the role of art in our lives. thu 6 Jun 6:30 PM eV8 sat 8 Jun 2:00 PM eV8 Austria | 2013 | 79 mins | In German and French with English subtitles australian PreMiere Director, Screenwriter: Daniel Hoesl | Producers: Katharina Posch, Daniel Hoesl, Gerald Kerkletz | Cast: Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christina Reichsthaler, Josef Kleindienst | World Sales: Premium Films A rebellious film about two women who reject the constraints of their lives, Daniel Hoesl’s Soldate Jeannette was made with a small budget and no screenplay, but with a great deal of wild energy. Fanni, who moves in rich circles, has reached the very heights of indulgence. But expensive pleasures no longer provide the level of satisfaction they once did, and a scheme Fanni has been running is on the verge of being uncovered. So she leaves the city and heads to the countryside, where she meets Anna, who lives on a farm and is tired of tending to the pigs. Together these two very different women embrace freedom. This stridently independent and anarchic film won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. Hoesl was assistant director on Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, also screening at SFF (page 47). Filmmaker guest: Daniel Hoesl